Well, you are not alone in your frustration. The SUBSIM Super-CD circa July 2004 had a medals mod (SH2awardfix.zip) with the following readme:
Quote:
SUBSIM Review
subsim.com
12/22/01
MEDALS FIX
These 3 files will fix a problem with awards process.
Until I did this I was was NEVER awarded the German Cross
OR the Knights Crosses
How to install
copy and paste these 3 files
~AwardGermanCross.dsf
~AwardKnightsSwords.dsf
AwardKnightsSwords.dsf
in to C:\Program Files\SSI\Silent Hunter II\Shell\DSF
Note that you do NOT need to overwrite or backup any files.
Uninstall - delete the previous 3 files
What I did -
frustrated by my inability to win the German Cross and the
Knights Crosses ( but ALL others easily) I started snooping
around the "shell" area looking for the scoring process. ie if score = x then award medal
I never found it. I did find a number of files related to each
award however. I noticed that one of the knights cross awards
is MISSPELLED as "awardkinghtsswords.dsf"
so after looking the prog with wordpad
I simply created
"awardknightsswords.dsf " and " ~awardknightsswords.dsf "
by using "rename file".
I then tested my fix. On my next mission I was
TOLD I won the German Cross in Gold ( a first) but then
RECEIVED the Knight Cross w Oak Leaves (also a first) ....!!! BUG
again checking C:\Program Files\SSI\Silent Hunter II\Shell\DSF
I noticed that while all other awards had 2 files the
German Cross in Gold only had 1. what a surprise.
so I created " ~AwardGermanCross.dsf " by using
one of the other " ~ " files as a template and pasting
in all the appropriate info. Since I have not changed ANY
of the data contained WITHIN these file this mod is NOT a cheat.
retested w a new career at 86 % realism NO OTHER MODS
have been awarded ALL medals & badges w no errors
(although I did win the iron cross 1st class twice...)
Happy Holidays
Dave
Palindromeria@aol.com
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You might check the current SUBSIM downloads and see if the mod is still available. I have the Super CD mentioned above if you can't find it (I have not tried it). It's only 2.18 KB in size.